| 单词 | to a person's meed |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto a person's meed c. to meed (in Old and Middle English also †to medes): as a reward. Also †to a person's meed. Now archaic. [In Old English, alongside the regular to mēde , is found to mēdes , with an irregular genitive singular formed on the analogy of neuter nouns used in similar adverbial phrases, such as to leanes (see lean n.1). In Middle English the form medes in this phrase was perhaps apprehended as a plural.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > as reward or in recompense [phrase] to meedOE to meeding?a1300 in revenge for (also of)1553 for one's painsa1563 OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1881) I. 270 God him sylð tomedes þæt ece lif. OE Ælfric Homily (Corpus Cambr. 188) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 45 Þæt hi ealle habbon heofonan rice him gemænelice, him sylfum to mede. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 67 Ure louerd..giueð hem to medes eche lif and blisse. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 155 Þet we moten..habbe to mede endelese blisse. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3150 Wat woste..þulke mon to is mede ȝiue uawe, þat þe king aurely broȝte sone of lifdawe? a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 1201 My-self to medes wole þe lettre sowe. a1425 Celestine 75 in Anglia (1878) 1 69 (MED) To meodes I wile bicom þi man at þi somoun. a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 599 To medys þou ȝeue me howse and londe. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 26 Thou was alway..to me trew as stele..frendship shal thou fele To mede. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 186 Those who pleasure had to meed Upon a day when all were glad. 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano i. xiv. 45 They both of worth deserved love's bliss to mede, And yet of him had only dule alone. < as lemmas |
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